This edition: Paths to Just Recovery in Puerto Rico

Episode Details

First aired: October 20, 2017.

This week on the show, Patri Ramirez Gonzalez from the Puerto Rico/Detroit Solidarity Exchange Network talks about grassroots plans to save family farmers and the ecosystem in Puerto Rico, and Trishala Deb, Asia regional director for Thousand Currents, a grant-making organization with partners across the world, shares hard won lessons from grassroots activists in Asia. Then from food justice and grassroots brilliance we'll hear from David Galarza Santa, a labor and community activist, about a Puerto Rican plan to recover, revitalize and resist calls for electricity privatization by building back different.

About this series

The Laura Flanders Show leads the field in new economy media by reporting on the social critics, artists, activists, and entrepreneurs who are building tomorrow’s world today. Programs cover innovation, tomorrow’s heroes and social transformation, providing news in context - and lifting radical spirits! Laura Flanders is an English broadcast journalist living in the United States.